Drink driver’s antics beggar belief

Pamela MIrghani

When police stopped a car which was driving along on the rim of its wheel, sending sparks flying, they were shocked to see it was being driven by a drink-driver who lost his license hours before , after he jack-knifed a truck, causing a trailer to roll down a hill.

At 9.30pm a truck towing a trailer with a tractor on board had attempted a 3-point turn on Steere Street in Bridgetown when it jack-knifed, separating the two.

Unaware, the driver drove off in the truck and turned onto Hampton Street.

In the mean time the trailer, with tractor on board, rolled down a hill, crossed through a four-way intersection before crashing into a parked car.

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While officers from Bridgetown Police were at the scene attending to the trailer and tractor they spotted the truck heading back towards the scene.

Standing on the road waving it down, officers were forced to jump out of the way after the oncoming truck drove straight past without stopping.

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The truck came to a stop 500m down the road and the driver, a 28-year-old man from Beaconsfield, was taken into custody.

The man was breath-tested and found to be in excess of 0.15 per cent and informed he would be charged by summons for the DUI and issued with a disqualification notice suspending his license.

He was released about 10.15pm, but it was not the last police would see of him.

Almost two hours later Australind police were on patrol in Bunbury when they saw a white Holden Colorado utility heading east on Sandridge Road at 12.45am.

One of the rear wheels was missing the rubber and the rim was grinding on the road causing a large amount of sparks.

After stopping the vehicle, police allegedly found the same man driving.

Back-tracking the vehicle, police followed the gouge marks in the road for 8km and found the utility had crossed to the wrong side of the road a number of times, including through intersections, and gone the wrong way through a roundabout.

The man was breath-tested and found to be still over the limit, and charged with driving in excess 0.08 per cent, reckless driving and no authority to drive, as his license was suspended after the first incident.

The man was refused bail and will appear in the Bunbury Magistrates Court on January 26.